These scientists were not uniformly won over by the virtues of democracy, either. While Dr. Rao said he hoped and believed that China would become a multiparty democracy in his lifetime, Dr. Shi said he doubted that that political system “will ever be appropriate for China.”
这篇报道让施一公在那儿讲多党民主不适合中国，和饶毅做对比，不是在涮他吧？
Yet the re-entry to the politicized world of science in China can be challenging. Some scientists with weaker résumés have shunned returnees. In its biennial election of academicians last month, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s highest advisory body on science and technology, passed over Dr. Shi and Dr. Rao. It also did not recognize Wang Xiaodong, a well-known Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator who recently left the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas for Beijing’s National Institute of Biological Sciences.
施、王都是美籍，当然当不成中科院院士，又不是像该报道暗示的有什么阴谋。他们放弃美籍，就应该能当上了。